Abstract

Although it is well known that tularemia is a blood-borne infection, little notice has been taken of the frequency with which it attacks the lung. Francis1 reported abstracts of the twenty-four fatal human cases of which he had record up to October, 1928, and in more than one-third of these a diagnosis of intercurrent bronchopneumonia had been made. Simpson2 subsequently expressed the opinion that the physical signs in many of these so-called bronchopneumonias were probably due to multiple tularemic necroses. The author3 has recently published the thirteen cases which have come under his personal observation and six of these gave